DETOUR (2011)

[h1] Feels like a fart not a game. [/h1]

Detour, developed by Geoff “Zag” Keene and Richard Keene and self-published by Geoff “Zag” Keene, is a unique experiment in the real-time strategy genre that replaces armies and battlefields with highways and freight trucks. At its core, it is a game about logistics, disruption, and tactical improvisation. Players are tasked with guiding a convoy of trucks from their factory to a destination on the opposite side of a map, but what begins as a simple exercise in road building quickly turns into a fierce contest of territory and timing. The game’s minimalist concept conceals a surprising level of depth, forcing players to juggle resource management, infrastructure planning, and sabotage in real time. Each decision has an immediate impact—every piece of road placed, every bomb detonated, every blockade deployed—and the margin for error narrows as opponents act simultaneously. The gameplay structure of Detour is what makes it stand apart from other strategy games. You earn credits by operating within your territory and gathering resources from the map, then spend those credits on building roads and deploying special actions. The landscape is broken into a grid of tiles that may includ…

Meh.

Trying to figure it out feels like weather in April - everything changes without warning. The graphics are nice but my attempts to understand look like tripping over my own feet in a storm!

+ Good music

So bad